LEPIOTA. 245 



liepiota nympharum. Kalchbr. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, flesh thick, soft, white ; convex 

 then expanded, umbonate, white or with a fuscous tinge at 

 the disc, everywhere covered with somewhat overlapping, 

 more or less spreading, concentrically arranged scales ; gills 

 free but close to the stem, without a cartilaginous collar, 

 crowded, ventricose, soft, white ; stem 3-4 in. long, 4-5 lines 

 thick, inserted into a deep socket of the flesh of the pileus, 

 white, somewhat equal, smooth and glabrous below the ring, 

 minutely floccose above, hollow ; ring very distant, narrow, 

 persistent, fixed, reflexed ; spores globose. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) nympharum, Kalchbrenner, Icon. Sel. 

 Hymen. Hung., p. 10, tab. 2, fig. 1. 



Among grass, &c. 



The flesh of the stem becomes rufous near the outside. 

 Differs from L. Vittadinii in the hollow stem. 



Lepiota holosericea. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh thick, soft, white ; convex then 

 expanded and almost plane, obtuse, silkily floccose and some- 

 what fibrillose, even, fragile, whitish or with a tinge of tan- 

 colour, disc not at all gibbous and coloured like the remainder, 

 margin incurved when young ; gills quite free, broad, ven- 

 tricose, crowded, pallid white; stem solid, 2^-4 in. long, 

 in. and more thick, soft, fragile, silkily-fibrillose, whitish, 

 f>ase bulbous, not rooting ; ring superior, membranaceous, 

 large, soft, pendulous, margin turned up; spores elliptical, 

 7-8 x 5 fji. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) Tiolosericeus, Fries, Epicr., p. 16; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 15 ; Cke., lllustr., pi 41. 



In gardens, &c. 



Large, inodorous, very soft. 



Lepiota naucina. Fr. 



White. Pileus 1-4 in. across, flesh thick, soft ; spherical 

 then expanded and almost plane, somewhat umbonate and 

 smooth at the centre, cuticle thin, glabrous, then breaking 

 up into evanescent granules ; gills free but very close to the 

 stem, 2-3 lines broad, narrow in front ; stem 2 in. long, \ in. 

 thick at the apex, becoming thicker downwards to the swollen 

 base, imperfectly hollow ; ring superior, thin, delicate, 

 usally soon disappearing ; spores subglobose, 6-7 p. diameter. 



